The UN recognition of a human right to water for drinking, personal and other domestic uses and sanitation in 2010 was a political breakthrough in states’ commitments to adopt a human rights framework in carrying out part of their mandate. This chapter explores other domains of freshwater governa...
Koppen, Barbara C.M. van
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Hellum, A.
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Mehta, L.
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Derman, B.
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Schreiner, B.
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[Rights-based freshwater governance for the twenty-first century: beyond an exclusionary focus on domestic water uses]
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Rights-based freshwater governance for the twenty-first century: beyond an exclusionary focus on domestic water uses
Denby, K.
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Movik, S.
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Mehta, L.
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[The "trickle down" of integrated water resources management: a case study of local-level realities in the Inkomati Water Management Area, South Africa]
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The "trickle down" of integrated water resources management: a case study of local-level realities in the Inkomati Water Management Area, South Africa
Eeden, A. van
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Mehta, L.
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Koppen, Barbara C.M. van
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[Whose waters?: large-scale agricultural development and water grabbing in the Wami-Ruvu River Basin, Tanzania]
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Whose waters?: large-scale agricultural development and water grabbing in the Wami-Ruvu River Basin, Tanzania
The historical legacy in South Africa of apartheid and the resulting discriminatory policies and power imbalances are critical to understanding how water is managed and allocated, and how people participate in designated water governance structures. The progressive post-apartheid National Water A...
Denby, K.
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Movik, S.
,
Mehta, L.
,
Koppen, Barbara C.M. van
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[The 'Trickle Down' of IWRM: a case study of local-level realities in the Inkomati Water Management Area, South Africa]
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The 'Trickle Down' of IWRM: a case study of local-level realities in the Inkomati Water Management Area, South Africa
In Tanzania like in other parts of the global South, in the name of 'development' and 'poverty eradication' vast tracts of land have been earmarked by the government to be developed by investors for different commercial agricultural projects, giving rise to the contested land grab phenomenon. In ...
Eeden, A. van
,
Mehta, L.
,
Koppen, Barbara C.M. van
,
[Whose waters? large-scale agricultural development and water grabbing in the Wami-Ruvu River Basin, Tanzania]
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Whose waters? large-scale agricultural development and water grabbing in the Wami-Ruvu River Basin, Tanzania